Sentence examples for mary about from inspiring English sources

Earlier that day I'd been out with Steve Hussey from the Devon Wildlife Trust and scouted a stretch of river near Ottery St Mary, about eight miles from the coast.

The exceptions are Mary, about whom more later, and the roman à clef strand in which a senior writer named Don Grady brings down a president, hides from the newspaper material for his books and is brought low by a scandal regarding the Pulitzer prize.

The conversation eventually digressed into a furious debate between Mr. Li and the middle-aged woman in the row ahead, whose name I had learned was Mary, about whether the United States had military personnel stationed in Taiwan.

Marina Warner will discuss two of her most seminal works, and the women who inspired them - The Virgin Mary, about whom Warner wrote Alone of All Her Sex, an attempt provide a deeper understanding of the near-mythical figure, and Joan of Arc, who is depicted in Warner's Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism.

Over to You, by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Cillian Murphy, Juliet Stevenson, Sophie Okonedo (6hrs unabridged, Penguin, £13.99) Remember Dahl's gruesome short story, "William and Mary", about the vengeful widow who is keeping her dead husband's brain and one eye alive in a petri dish so that she can torture him every day with her chain-smoking and expensive new clothes?

In the four weeks since the shortlist was announced on 10 September, Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, about the life of the Virgin Mary after Jesus's death, has led sales of the six shortlisted books, shifting 8,300 copies, according to official Bookscan figures quoted in industry magazine the Bookseller.

In "The Testament of Mary," a one-woman show with Fiona Shaw previewing later this month on Broadway, Toibin imagines his own version of how the Virgin Mary felt about crucifixion — "the most foul and frightening image that had ever been conjured up by men" — and whether she really had not known Joseph in a biblical sense.

3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair.

Mrs. Kerr went on to take Broadway by storm in 1961 with "Mary, Mary," a comedy about a divorced couple who seem headed for new and misguided relationships until they discover that they still love each other.

Its midnight offering to close out Halloween night on Thursday is a classic example: "Bloody Marys," about murders linked only by the coincidence that they were committed by women named Mary.

In turn, a spice merchant (the first secular character, who was strikingly similar to the doctor figure of mumming plays and folk dramas) was added to haggle with the three Marys about the price of the ointment.